Recently, there has been new coverage of HBO and other entertainment outlets addressing the sin of slavery in America-a sin that we never have been able to overcome. There were news reports, albeit briefly during the last presidential campaign about certain politicians participating in a human trafficking ring in and around the nation’s Capitol. Slavery, human trafficking, forced labor–whatever you want to call it–is a crime against mankind. No one should do such things to another. There is a common thread in the history of slavery–Over the thousands of years of history regarding the slave trade, Islam has always participated.
The very worst nations in human trafficking are Islamic nations. From my count, some 60 of 71 countries on the State Department human trafficking watch list are Islamic dominated or have high Islamic populations. Communist or former communist nations make up the bulk of the rest. These nations turn a blind eye to women being kidnapped and put to work on farms, in labor camps, in brothels-yes brothels in Islam. The worst part is what they do to children. In some nations in the Islamic crescent, children, both boys and girls, are taken into sex slavery, used and abused, then tossed away left to die. Or are sent off to labor camps or forced to do other horrible things.
That anyone would have to endure being taken into slavery these days is an abomination that should never be tolerated. But part of the problem, which is not mentioned in the State Department report in any great detail are what they call “demand nations.” Developed countries like the United States that create a demand for child prostitution. And at the root of it is pornography. Europe and the United States have the largest pornography industries in the world. Los Angeles, alone, is home to the lion’s share of pornography generated and distributed worldwide. And in nearly every case of child prostitution or child molestation, pornography is found in the possession of the perpetrators.
Islamic nations proclaim their moral high ground point to the immorality in the US as an excuse to attack us. Notwithstanding, America has its hand in creating modern demand through its own brand of immorality as pornography enslaves people, sometimes willingly, often not. And the next time you buy something that says “Made in China” on it, think twice because it was likely made with slave labor, although China is often understated in the annual State Department reports. Proverbs 5:22 says, “His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.” These atrocities seem overwhelming, but with Jesus there is hope and light for us all. We just need to hold accountability.
